THE BARD GETS BOLD IN THE NEO-FUTURISTS'
DAREDEVILS' HAMLET
DAREDEVILS' HAMLET
created by Ryan Walters, directed by Halena Kays
Previews Thursday and Friday, August 19 and 20 at 8:00 p.m.
Opening Night: Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
Regular performances continue through September 25, 2010: Thurs/Fri/Sat at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets are $15, $10 for students/seniors with ID, or
pay-what-you-can on Thursdays.
All performances take place at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland
For tickets or information, visit
www.neofuturists.org
or call 773-275-5255.
CHICAGO - Danger ahead! The boys are back in the Neo-Futurists' season opener,
Daredevils'
Hamlet, opening Saturday, August 21, 2010 at The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland.
Buckle up for this high energy thematic homage to Shakespeare's
Hamlet.
Following the 2005 original production and pinnacle of jackassery, the
men in jumpsuits seize your attention once more to explore themes of
madness, revenge and passion through stunts, skulls, live music and
striptease. See them test the limits of the human body! Watch them
perform amazing feats of courage with complete and total idiocy! Be
there as they mash up this classic tragedy with personal revelation,
feats of daring-do, and reckless regard for their own safety!
Creator,
Ryan Walters, states, "The physicality of tumbling, stunts and even
some wrestling pushes our personal boundaries of body and mind. Through
that, we're investigating what it is to be man of action versus man of
thought. Can a real daredevil be both? "
Show up early to play four-square with the daredevils themselves before the show!
The daredevils are:
Brennan Buhl,
member of Barrel of Monkeys who appeared in the Neo-Futurists' presentation of
Strange Interlude
through the Goodman Theatre's Eugene O'Neill festival; John Pierson,
a Neo-Futurist of fourteen years who recently created CRISIS (A Musical Game Show);
Jay Torrence,
former Artistic Director of The Neo-Futurists who wrote and co-directed Roustabout: The Great Circus
Train Wreck;
Anthony Courser,
who is an ensemble member of Barrel of Monkeys and has appeared with The Neo-Futurists on
Picked Up
and The Fool (Returns to His Chair);
and creator, Ryan Walters.
Walters is the current Artistic Director of The Neo-Futurists, having
been an ensemble member since 2002. He created and co-wrote the
original
Daredevils,
which was remounted at Theatre on the Lake, and also co-created and co-wrote
Picked Up
(one of the Top Five Best Shows of 2008- "Newcity").
Director,
Halena Kays
is the co-founder and former artistic director of Barrel of Monkeys
where she created and directed the majority of their public
performances including their critically acclaimed long-running show:
That's Weird, Grandma,
called "the best reason to live in Chicago on a Monday night" by Time
Out Chicago. She is a member of the Hypocrites theatre company and a
former member of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care unit. Kays co-created
and directed the original production of
Daredevils
and directed Fake Lake
for The Neo-Futurists.
Other contributors include:
Michael Govier,
Assistant Director; Dan Broberg,
Set Designer and Scenic Painter; John
Szymanski
and
Kurt Chiang, Co-Sound Designer;
Maggie Fullilove-Nugent,
Production Manager and Lighting Designer; Heather Riordan,
Official Daredevils Physical Trainer; Miranda Anderson,
Stage Manager and Trevor
Dawkins,
Official Daredevils' Intkern, tumbler, stage hand and all around regular guy.
THE NEO-FUTURISTS
The Neo-Futurists, performers of
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
and
creators of over 60 other original, full-length productions, are a
collective of wildly productive writer/director/performers who create
immediate, non-illusory, interactive and head-slappingly affordable
performances.
The
Neo-Futurists are partially supported by the Illinois Arts Council, a
state agency, Alphawood Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust,
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, The MacArthur Fund for Arts
and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, a CityArts 3 grant,
The Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, National Endowment for
the Arts, the Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, and is a
participant in the New Generations Program, funded by the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered
by TCG.
Filed under: The Neo-Futurists
Tags: latest press releases
Chris Jones' blog
